France: Detente Cordiale?

Charles de Gaulle, who in private conversation once described President Kennedy as an "adversary," has
been getting along no better with the Johnson Administration. From NATO
to the U.N., Latin America to Red China, there is hardly an issue or an
area in world politics on which France has not taken a stand at
variance with U.S. policy. The activities of some French officials in
Southeast Asia often lead exasperated U.S. diplomats stationed there to
wonder if France is not actually trying to thwart U.S. efforts to keep
the area from falling to...